Black/ Off-white Small Floral Giftbox Handmade by Women Artisans

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₹391.00

Make a statement with your gifts. Your loved ones will be pleasantly surprised when they receive gifts picked by you with love nestled in this beautiful handcrafted gift box embellished with dried flower petals and leaves. Featuring a delicate floral design on the lid and complemented by a plain-coloured, this is sure to make your gifts an affair to remember.
Product price is inclusive of a Rs.55 shipping charge.

Why we like it
This box is gorgeous and green, and comes with a great origin story. It is handmade using recycled materials by a collective of erstwhile women waste pickers turned skilled artists who are moving out of a life of poverty and towards financial freedom.

This beautiful, eco-friendly box is adorned with pressed, dried petals from discarded flowers. It is a multi-purpose box that is great for gifting sweets, chocolates and dry fruits, or for storing jewellery, accessories or other knick-knacks.

The Artisans
These products have been painstakingly crafted by a collective of women in the Ghazipur slum community who formerly worked as waste-pickers. The women are trained in embroidery, stitching and delicate floral art, thereby giving them the skills they need to become financially self-sufficient. Some of the women are employed in a women-run centre in East Ghazipur where they make these unique and useful products. The making of these products transforms these women from waste-pickers into skilled artisans and provides them a safe, dignified and sustainable livelihood.

Your ImpactEnvironmental impact
This product uses eco-friendly materials like discarded flowers and recycled paper. It thus saves virgin paper and keeps hundreds of tons of used flowers from being dumped in the garbage or thrown into water bodies.

Social impact
This is more than just a beautifully crafted product. Its making has helped upskill and provide alternative employment and a stable income to more than 100 underprivileged women who were formerly engaged in waste-picking. It empowers them to move out of a life of poverty, illness and uncertainty into a life of respect and economic self-reliance.

Weight

.12 kg

Dimensions

15 x 13 x 8 cm

Gulmeher

Gulmeher is a women’s collective of waste-pickers turned artisans that is committed to the green agenda and believes that creating beautiful products can go hand in hand with environmental and social development.

We are demonstrating a sustainable social enterprise business model, centred around a women’s group in the Ghazipur slum community. At Gulmeher, we strive to provide an alternative and sustainable livelihood by creating eco-friendly products using discarded flowers and recycled paper. Our commitment is to provide a dignified livelihood by transforming waste-pickers into artisans, and it gives us the iron will to work tirelessly to grow Gulmeher.

Where it began

– Established in 2013 to provide alternative livelihood for women waste-pickers.